Ways to group communities to browse at once rather than just local, all, and subscribed. A multi-Lemmy if you will.
This would be particularly useful now that a ton of tiny but similar places are springing up and vying for attention. That way you wouldn’t have to choose which to browse.
easy subscribe links - like, click on it and then subscribe, not the current method (which totally functions but its cumbersome and unwieldly).
When people link other instances in posts or comments, it should automatically be translated to view it on your own instance instead of having to take it and search for it.
User and post flares!
Karma
/s
I’m actually curious the reason why Lemmy does not have a karma equivalent.
I don’t miss it since I rarely checked my reddit karma but it does have pros and cons.
More of an app than a platform feature, but the ability to collapse all child comments.
On Jerboa at least you can do this by tapping on the comment
User flairs!
an ability to re-order search results, eg in the communities list page having it so that we can click on a column and have the results sort according to that column, or alphabetically or most recent.
and some way of filtering the results would be good as well
More for jerboa, but RIF had an option to confirm you want to go back/refresh feed. My palm accidentally hits the back button often, and I have to start scrolling back from the top.
Hopefully a multi-community (multi Reddit type) feature
Default to showing subscribed communities, rather than local ones. De-emphasise the server in certain areas (eg community list) - I think the community is more important than the server it’s on and having it there so prominently causes confusion about it’s importance.
I can see why it has the server focus but I’d argue most people want to join a general server with a wide reach rather than something isolated.
Though this is me trying to use Lemmy as “distributed Reddit” so maybe I just don’t get it.
Being able to see a list of all the communities of an instance, without having to actually go to that instance.
Then being able to add whichever community from there with a simple button click.
E.g. I’m on lemmy.one, I can go to lemmy.one/communities to see all the local communities. Now I’d like to go to lemmy.one/communities@lemmy.ml or similar, to see a complete list of lemm.ml’s instances. Then, when I click “subscribe” next to e.g. “Comics” there, the community should be added to lemmy.one if it isn’t already and subscribe me that way.
Also links to communities should automatically be changed to local links. lemmy.ml/c/Comics would become lemmy.one/c/Comics@lemmy.ml If it doesn’t already exist on the local instance, clicking on it should not display a 404, but a message that it is being added and available soon.
It’s a pain in the ass to go to each instance, copy the URL of each community and then pasting it to the search of my local one. Then wait for it to be indexed and finally being able to subscribe.
user notes/tags editable anywhere the username shows, and shown next to the username thereafter.
Better ways to explore the communities available. Also maybe improving the Android app ecosystem.
You might like https://lemmyverse.net/
the ability to create communities in other instances than the one that our accounts are in. i’d rather use a server in my local region than have to go to the other side of the planet where there’s a populated server